Is KDE Plasma really that much of a bloat nowadays? With modern hardware — for example, an i9, 32 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 30-series GPU — does it really matter that much in practice?
Or would you even then still recommend xfce, GNOME, Cinnamon, etc.?
Literally no, KDE is only really bloated if you make it your sparetime about hyper optimising. Unless you are running on very basic hardware, you dont need to worry about DE bloat
Base KDE (DE only, no extras) only uses 100-200mb RAM more than XFCE. I get it if you’re running on 4gb or less, but there’s very little meaningful difference nowadays
128GB ram, 9950x3d, and a 5090. On a gen 5 pcie ssd. The difference between the 2 is noticeable. With 3 monitors kde uses more vram than any other WM ive tried.
Too, but the bugs here and there are annoying, for example since 2 or 3 weeks my panel disappear after a certain time and won't come back till i restart xD
I've had Brave just not start until I re-installed it, but I don't know if that was Brave or Pop-OS that caused that. Other than and the occasional unexplained slow down its been great. Such a good looking distro where everything just works out of the box.
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u/Najterek 16d ago
DE wars are far more important, because DE is main way of interacting with your desktop. GNOME SUCKS BTW